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The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Managenent Agency (CDEMA) Coordinating Unit (CU) is inviting applications for a Maintenance Assistant/Driver who will be required to assist with general office tasks, provide messenger services and ensure that the Agency’s vehicles and other equipment are properly maintained.

Deadline for applications is close of business on Friday, February 23rd, 2018. Please click here for official vacancy notice & here for job description.

The Latin American and Caribbean Seismological Commission (LACSC) and the Seismological Society of America (SSA) will be hosting the Seismology of the Americas Conference in Miami, Florida on 14–17 May 2018.

Bridgetown, Barbados, December 15th, 2017 (CDEMA) – Described as a stalwart and standard bearer in disaster management in the Caribbean, Brigadier General (R) Earl Arthurs was presented the 2017 CDEMA Council of Ministers and Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Closing Ceremony, Awards & Gala Dinner of the 10th Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) held on Friday, December 8, 2017, at Melia Nassau Beach Resort.

Nassau, Bahamas, December 9th, 2017 – More than 2 million € will be invested to strengthen disaster risk reduction and early warning systems through the exchange of good practices and building of capacities of the Caribbean countries to better be prepared to face destructive events in the future.

Nassau, Bahamas, December 8th, 2017 (CDEMA) – The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), presented cheques totaling US $140,000 to the hurricane impacted countries of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI). Both territories received US $70,000 each to assist with further relief and recovery efforts post hurricanes Irma and Maria.